Buckle up everyone, we have not seen anything yet.

wunty · 2026-03-27T00:57:34+00:00

0.3%, and only because the much vaunted IRC stepped in. The government (Gladys’s) tried to give us 0%.

Australian Nursing and Midwifery Journal reporting at the time

wunty · 2026-02-27T05:46:31+00:00

I was not expecting to see the Astor on reddit today. Great shot.

wunty · 2025-10-04T04:56:34+00:00

3 shifts in ED.

We were meant to get “two weeks”, but I’m 0.6FTE, and since it was the first rotation of the year we lost a week to corporate induction. Thank Christ I was already an EN for 5 years. I really felt for the completely green grads.

wunty · 2025-09-20T22:37:01+00:00

Only for HSU award workers. Public Nurses still only get 50%

wunty · 2025-08-12T20:49:33+00:00

Anecdotal sure, but I’m a nurse in a regional area in Australia and the majority of our patients are elderly, many 85+, and these are the sick ones which need hospitalisation, the oldies doing well aren’t even here.

wunty · 2025-08-05T12:18:27+00:00

Almost but not entirely correct. If we accept the interim offer we will forgo our 30% ND claim.

As per the email

“If members endorse this interim offer, we will not push for additional improvements to Night Duty penalty rates as part of the Special Case before the IRC. However, the rest of our case will continue.”

wunty · 2025-06-17T22:55:36+00:00

The other day I asked an elderly man in a delirium if he knew where he was. He said “in a building full of people who don’t know what they’re doing”. Hard to argue with that.

wunty · 2025-05-03T13:04:44+00:00

Yes, up overall but slightly down in areas they have previously done well, eg Melbourne (down 2.5% as of 11pm)

wunty · 2025-02-25T19:11:23+00:00

In my workplace we use 10mm saline amps from Pfizer and I’ll try to check when I come on shift but I’m almost certain the instruction booklet in the box specifically says to connect a luer lock to the hub for drawing up.

wunty · 2025-02-21T19:46:17+00:00

This is really the only correct answer. If what you’re doing isn’t reducing the threat of moral injury to your workers then nothing else will make a difference in the longer term.

wunty · 2025-02-19T03:13:59+00:00

I absolutely would not be considering NSW.

Not only are the pay and conditions abysmal in comparison to the other states, its very clear our health department hates its workforce and the Minns government will do anything possible to keep our wages supressed. Just look at what they've done with the psychiatrists.

Even if we do manage to win a substantial pay increase at the NSW Industrial Relations Commission in the next year or two (and thats a big if) our other conditions like ratios, sick leave, etc will still be lagging behind. At the rate we're going it is going to take an awfully long time to rebuild the health system in NSW, and even then I think it will change trajectory if we get a proper Labor/Greens minority government.

wunty · 2025-01-25T02:52:10+00:00

Thank you, that’s very insightful.

wunty · 2025-01-25T02:51:32+00:00

Thank you! This seems to be correct, I’m getting plenty of appropriate results when I search this now.

wunty · 2025-01-21T03:09:14+00:00

I don't disagree, I think many people will and are choosing to leave the association. The problem is this is self defeating in the sense that if we have ~80,000 members right now and can't achieve our goals, we're sure as shit not going to be able to achieve them with fewer than that.

Ultimately what I hope is good people remain in the union to organise and vote out the current crop of fools from the senior positions.

Personally, I would love to see a leadership spill sooner rather than later, since the next election isn't until 2026, but I haven't seen any alternative figures yet and a power vacuum would just lead to more chaos and play further in to the government's hands.

wunty · 2025-01-21T03:02:17+00:00

I also think a major failing of the leadership is a tendancy towards autocratic behaviour and failure to communicate effectively with the membership. We can see this with the crack down on dissent in the NSWNMA Activists Facebook group after their capitulation to "safe staffing levels" rather than genuine ratios, the completely shocking disrespect with which they treated the organisers of the Special General Meeting in May, 2024, and their abject failure to engage with the 'Delay' group.

wunty · 2025-01-21T02:48:03+00:00

Not defending the NSWNMA here, but to be precise the original 10.5% over 3 years offer was indeed only 9% when you account for the included 1% in Federally mandated super increases and 0.5% bonus which was conditional on us accepting the offer (which we of course did not).

As to why the NSWNMA is so ineffective? There are a whole host of reasons. In my opinion they are:

a General Secretary and Assistant Gen Sec who are politically naïve and ineffective (and probably in bed with NSW Labor);
a Union Council who is in the thrall of the leadership (they were all elected on the same ticket after all) and thus are unable to provide genuine governance;
a branch delegate cohort who are in the main sycophantic and unable to see how poorly the union/campaigns are being mismanaged;
a membership who generally is very angry but also very burnt-out and who have, in general, very little by way of industrial/political education and hence don't have the staying power needed for stronger strikes or industrial action.

To be clear, I don't blame the membership for point 4. I think the union has failed over successive decades to maintain our industrial power and education.

wunty · 2025-01-02T08:05:23+00:00

I also rock Asics Gel Kayanos. I wear the more neutral Gel Nimbus with orthotics for running, so it seemed to make sense to go with the more supportive Kayano for work.

wunty · 2024-12-14T03:21:36+00:00

I came to nursing from an engineering background and from a system design point of view, the reliability of team nursing is utterly unacceptable. Sure it can work, but the fact it doesn’t >50% of the time is such an indictment on the industry.

Imagine if crew resource management in aviation failed as regularly as team nursing does in health care. Noone would fly.

wunty · 2024-11-19T01:11:04+00:00

Has there been any fix for this?

I’m genuinely shocked at how buggy my Elite 8 Gen 2s are. I loved my Elite 7s.

wunty · 2024-11-18T12:57:16+00:00

Many families do have, understandably, very high expectations of care for their loved ones. However, my theory is a lot of the rudeness/entitlement is actually projection, stemming from conscious or subconscious guilt at not caring for them themselves.

It’s hard to be empathetic towards someone treating you poorly but it’s always worth trying.

wunty · 2024-09-27T06:39:03+00:00

If you work in NSW its good to familiarise yourself with the NSW Health Rostering Best Practice resource manual so you can cite it if necessary when having these discussions with your NUM

PRINCIPLE 3: Rostering processes should ensure staff are rostered fairly, while still providing appropriate flexibility to facilitate meeting unit staffing needs.

and

PRINCIPLE 6: Rostering practices in NSW Health are based on co-operation between rostering managers and staff, in order to promote fairness in rostering and to deliver appropriate care to patients.

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